Chris Bryden

This Q&A considers the scope of an attorney’s powers under an ordinary power of attorney relating to the donor’s business.

This Q&A considers the date relevant when entering into a reversionary lease, in respect of publishing an EPC.

This Q&A considers when it is necessary to carry out a pre-completion insolvency or bankruptcy search against a seller of property. In addition, it considers what effect the seller’s insolvency or bankruptcy will have on the contract which has been exchanged and on certification of good title to the buyer’s lender.

This Q&A considers how, in a personal injury claim, a defendant company should be identified on a claim form where it has changed its registered name with Companies House since the accident.

This Q&A considers the two different ways in which an application can be made for a Norwich Pharmacal order. The appropriate method to use will depend on whether proceedings have already been commenced. The two avenues are via a Part 8 claim or a Part 23 application.

This Q&A considers whether a respondent is required, when submitting their ET3 response to an employment tribunal claim, to copy the claimant into the email.

This Q&A considers whether a governor’s permission is needed when to issue a claim when suing a prisoner and what information should be included on the claim form.

This Q&A looks at whether tenants can remove a management company after collectively enfranchising.

This Q&A considers whether a user clause which permits the use of premises as a golf club and for ancillary purposes would allow part of the club premises to be used as a restaurant or takeaway.

This Q&A considers whether two transfers of property for no monetary consideration would be an exchange for SDLT purposes.

This Q&A considers whether a business sale and purchase agreement completed pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) and which provides for deferred consideration dependent on post completion profits (12 months following completion) can, absent a force majeure clause, be rendered frustrated as a result of coronavirus and, if so, with what consequences.

This Q&A considers whether B can make a Part 36 offer to A, the terms of which are that B makes an offer to purchase land owned by A.

This question relates to the period, if any, that the recipient of a legacy in a Will must survive following the death of the testator.

This Q&A discusses whether the executors must pay the estate funds direct to the trustee in bankruptcy or whether they can pay the funds direct to the beneficiary where a beneficiary of a Will is bankrupt.

This Q&A considers how the doctrine of satisfaction applies where a beneficiary to a Will has received gifts within seven years of death.

This Q&A considers who the appropriate defendant to lease renewal proceedings is, where a business tenant has a lease containing a right to access land owned by a third party.

This Q&A looks at the effect of the sale of a business on a business and residential tenancy, where a business tenant uses a residential part of the property for a member of staff and has a protected tenancy under the Rent Act 1977 for that property.

This Q&A considers the steps required to enforce a child arrangements order made in this jurisdiction in the Republic of Ireland.

The Q&A considers whether a child arrangement order made by consent can subsequently be varied on the application of one of the parties.

This Q&A considers whether the receipt of child benefit by the other parent would prevent an application to the Child Maintenance Service.